#flying faster backwards Superman style may not technically be possible

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twilight + earth

Supercorp 2023

“I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

or Kara thinks the universe took Lena from her and so tries to defy it to get her back

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All Kara's life has been cleaved into a 'before' and an 'after'

Before Krypton was gone.

And after.

Before all the darkness of space.

And after.

Before Earth.

Before Midvale.

Before the Danvers.

Before Supergirl.

Before Lena.

Before loving Lena.

And after, after, after.

She looks at the earth below, at the moving line on its surface dividing day from night — another before from another after.

She reaches her hand out into the scattering particles escaping through the atmosphere, grasps at the pieces of Krypton, of Earth, of Lena they contain. She drifts into the space they come from, lets them envelop her. Falls into the twilight stretched out beneath her.

Because here the universe has not made up it's mind yet.

Here Lena is still waiting for her at home.

Here she is not dying in her arms.

Here she does not have to know whether or not she can bear an Earth where there becomes a before and after losing Lena.

In this space between yesterday and tomorrow she will ask the Gods and the universe just this once to allow light and time to reverse their roles.

She will ask them for the strength to fly faster than both, to go back to a different before.

But she will get a different answer from them.

"Kara?"

Lena's voice was shaky, strained, and 100km away but the sound of it is the most utterly beautiful thing Kara has ever heard.

"I’m okay… you… come home…please just come home"

And so she flies instead not faster than light, but simply into it. Earth beneath her feet again, and Sol slowly drifting over her face, she begins the slow decent back towards light…towards home….towards Lena.

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#supergirl #supercorp #supercorptober #supercorptober2023 #sg prompts #Kara thinks Lena is dead and does not handle it well #flying faster backwards Superman style may not technically be possible #but there is some cool Quantum theory that makes faster than light time loops a thing #so Kara's not completely wrong. #just a smol one #but felt like writing something with a little different rythym #hope you like it